Learned Helplessness

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This paper analyzes the phenomena of learned helplessness in college-age students, with the goal of increasing the body of growing research on the subject and eliciting a greater understanding of its causes and possible solutions. The paper aims to serve as a first step to assist educators in developing a comprehensive guide to intervene in situations where learned helplessness may be present.

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"The phenomena of learned helplessness has been met by many theories and many myths about the learning ability of the student, garnered from the work professionals do with students. Some of the real reasons have been gleaned from the answers students themselves give for their failure to perform in test environments, possibly recounting historical failures, despite their possible or real competence with the material and some are observational for the instructor, such as competence on daily work, or in class work but failure on exams."

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